Abstract:
As times are changed, the change is fett in teaching-learning process too.
Those days class rooms were teacher-centered. Students were at the receiving end. And
they were expected to reproduce what they have received. Learning hardly had real life
situations. They were content based and compartmentalized. But today's classrooms
expect interactions, questioning, responding and reflecting on both sides. There is
synergy of thoughts, ideas and intellectual expertise. Ultimately, today's teachers lend
their hands towards bringing up productive citizens.
A portfolio is a portable, systematic, purposeful collection of work, selected to
provide information about attitude, level of development and growth during a given
period of time. It is a powerful visual tool that provided evidence of personal
reflections, learning growth and development and a comprehensive and complex
overview of skills.
The success of a learner lies on goal orientation. The goal oriented individual
has to have a watch over on his progress. Portfolios provide students with the
opportunity to see how they have progressed as learners. Students begin to reflect on
their strengths as a learner, areas where they need to improve, what constitutes quality
work and how their work reflects the expected standards. Here portfolio is a tool for
self-monitoring and self-evaluation and it is useful as a 'marketing tool' in the job
search process.
Today's classroom environment reflects the cultural ethos. The tone and the
style of the message the teacher carries to his class, his expertise in the Meld, and
integrity reflect in the success of his teaching. He has to have teaching goals, teaching
philosophy and design for learner's portfolio. Maintaining portfolio writing both on the
part of teacher as well as the learner develop healthy learning culture towards social
development It results in development of human resources for economic development
of the country.
